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Microsoft Scores Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders

Microsoft today announced that it has picked up the publishing rights to the Xbox-only action-strategy game, Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders, currently in development by Phantagram and heading to retail shelves this fall. The game, which is based on the company's popular PC strategy game franchise, will be the first Xbox Live-enabled action-strategy game to blend large-scale strategic battles with fast paced hand-to-hand combat.

Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders is set 50 years after the War of Heroes, where players assume the role of a general in a fantasy battlefield. Players will fight alongside their troops and catapults, dragons and other fantastic creatures and devices to crush the Dark Legions and put an end to the war. The game features up to 100 characters and allows up to 150 units to fight on one screen. Presented in a third-person perspective, player characters will progress from basic troops to more specialized and powerful units through 30 hours of single-player playtime - as the Humans or Dark Legions in more than 60 different maps.

Mission types will include all-out war, castle siege, scouting, trapping and more. Gamers can also compete head-to-head or team up with other players in Deathmatch battles via Xbox Live. Microsoft also plans on offering downloadable content like new mission packs, weapons and armor and performance tracking with an Xbox Live scoreboard.